We Hear: Lowell Spinners, Richard Dreyfuss, Charlie Rose & more...

Inside TrackTuesday, May 26, 2009

Credit: Abby Peterson

Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner rehearse a scene for ‘The Lightkeepers’ in Wellfleet.

That the Lowell Spinners will mark the one-year anniversary of the Red Sox’ Manny Ramirez trade on July 30 by honoring quitters and celebrating excuses. To get ready for the big event, the team will ask fans to help compose a list of the top five quitters, liars and cheaters of all time, the top five Manny Moments and the best excuses for their follies.

That Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, who play estranged lovers in the set-on-Cape Cod flick “The Lightkeepers,” had one other joint appearance - in the 1971 play “Major Barbara.” Danner had the title role and Dreyfuss - who had not yet had his “American Graffiti” breakthrough - had a bit part in the George Bernard Shaw play. “I fell in love with her,” Dreyfuss told us. “But then I found out she was married. I was crushed!”

That GQ maggie has picked the “25 Best Pizzas You’ll Ever Eat” and two of them are from Boston. The Square Slice at Galleria Umberto in the North End rang in at No. 19 while Santarpio’s Homemade Sausage Pie was No. 23. Down in Providence, Bob & Timmy’s Spinach & Mushroom Pie is good enough for a No. 5 ranking. Chi-chi Al Forno’s Grilled Pizza with Roasted Eggplant was No. 18. Not surprisingly, the No. 1 pizza in the USA was from Chicago - the Mortadella Pie from Great Lake . Yum!

And that PBS prober Charlie Rose will try to keep things civil when Demmie strategist James Carville squares off with former Bush adviser Karl Rove at The Minds That Move The World speaker series at the Citi Performing Arts Center tomorrow night.